At 09:55 AM 5/24/2010, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
At 09:13 PM 5/22/2010, Rob Lanphier wrote:
What this means is that there would not actually be a separate "autoreview" group. Autoconfirmed users would be given the access rights. I made this simplification because I wasn't able to find any documentation of any clear decision on this front.
Since that time, a debate was started over here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Flagged_revision...
I've commented in that discussion. Briefly, it should be a separate privilege. It could be granted on request and approval, I'd assume, by any administrator, but it definitely should be a revocable privilege, not purely automatic (and not revocable except by blocking) with autoconfirmation.